Leo Ascher
Leo Ascher (born August 17, 1880 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died February 25, 1942 in New York ) was an Austrian composer and lawyer.
Life
Leo Ascher, son of the umbrella manufacturer Moritz Ascher and Eva Friedenthal. He had two sisters, his brother Adolf Arnold Ascher (1867–1938) was murdered by the National Socialists. Ascher studied piano at the Conservatory for Music in Vienna with Hugo Reinhold and Louis Thern , composition with Robert Fuchs and Franz Schmidt . He also studied law and received his doctorate in law from the University of Vienna in 1904. His first operetta Vergelt 's Gott was premiered in 1905. From 1905 to 1932 he composed over 30 operettas.
In 1909/1910 Ascher was musical director of the Fledermaus Cabaret together with Béla Laszky . In the 1920s, Ascher began writing folk songs and film music. After he was arrested on Reichskristallnacht , he emigrated after his release in 1938 via France and England to New York, where he had lived with his wife and daughter as a lawyer specializing in copyright matters since 1939. Although his works were also performed under the National Socialists, he did not receive any royalties for them. In the last years of his life he lived in poor conditions. During this time he wrote patriotic songs and teaching literature for children.
Ascher was married to Louise Frankl (1872–1952), their daughter is the writer Franzi Ascher-Nash .
His artistic estate is kept at the Leo Ascher Center of Operetta Music at Millersville University of Pennsylvania . Letters, pictures, manuscripts and printed music are well processed there.
Works
Leo Ascher composed operettas, Viennese songs, chansons in several languages and film music.
Operettas
- Vergeltsgott (1905), T: Victor Léon (October 14, 1905, Theater an der Wien , Vienna )
- The Green Redoute (March 26, 1908, Danzers Orpheum , Vienna )
- Poor Lori (1909)
- State of siege (1909), T: August Neidhart
- Vindobona, you glorious city (July 22, 1910, Venice in Vienna, Vienna )
- The pious Silvanus (November 3, 1910, Cabaret Fledermaus , Vienna ), T: Beda-Löhner
- Rampsenit (1910), T: Beda-Löhner
- Das Salonfräulein (1910), T: Beda-Löhner
- The chaste Suzanne (1910), T: Beda-Löhner
- The golden garter belt (May 1, 1911, Ronacher Etablissement, Vienna )
- The Decoy (1912)
- Highness dances the waltz (February 24, 1912, Raimund Theater, Vienna ), T: Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald
- The Golden Hanna (January 4, 1914, Apollo Theater, Vienna )
- What do you not do out of love (December 17, 1914, Ronacher Etablissement, Vienna ), T: Felix Dörmann
- Ambassador Leni (February 19, 1915, Theater in der Josefstadt , Vienna )
- The beautiful comedian (1916)
- Marie's Soldier (1916, Berlin )
- Brother Leichtsinn (December 28, 1917, Bürgerertheater , Vienna ), T: Julius Brammer , Alfred Grünwald
- Egon and his women (1917)
- What girls dream (1919), T: Leopold Jacobson , Robert Bodanzky
- The Artist Prize (1919), T: Rudolf Oesterreicher, Julius Horst
- Princess Friedl (1920)
- Baronesschen Sarah (1920), T: August Neidhart
- Twelve o'clock at night (1920)
- A year without love (1923), T: Ludwig Hirschfeld , Alfred Deutsch-German
- Sonja (1925), T: Rudolf Presber ; Leo Walther Stein
- The Cupid's House (1926), T: Bruno Hardt , Max Steiner-Kaiser
- I love you (1926), T: Wilhelm Sterk
- Ninon am Scheideweg (1926), T: August Neidhart , Arthur Rebner
- La Barberina (1928), T: Viktor Léon
- The King of the Moulin Rouge (1929), T: Julius Wilhelm , Peter Herz
- Spring in the Vienna Woods (1930), T: Beda-Löhner , Fritz Lunzer
- Bravo Peggy (1932), T: Wilhelm Lichtenberg, Armin Robinson, Theodor Waldau
- To a little love (1936), T: Rudolph Lothar, Peter Herz
Songs and chansons
- From 1000 and one night , T: Hermann Klink
- The thunderstorm , T: Detlev von Liliencron
- The Lercherl from Hernals
- The marquise's puppet show
- The soldier's child
- The Flea , T: Robert Blum
- The corporal , T: Robert Heymann
- The new papa , T: Robert Heymann
- The three artists , T: Eddy Beuth
- The pious duchess , T: Robert Heymann
- The Duchess of Pampelona , T: Beda-Löhner
- The little marquise
- The beautiful woman Pollak , T: Homunculus
- The innocence , T: Robert Heymann
- The violin , T: Beda-Löhner
- L'appetit vient a mauyeant , T: homunculus
- This is how you should be , T: Wilhelm Sterk
- Lullaby op. 81 , T: Friedrich Werner van Oesteŕen
Movies
- The Soldier of Marie (1924), directed by Erich Schönfelder
- Purpur und Waschblau (1931), directed by Max Neufeld
- Mein Leopold (1931), directed by Hans Steinhoff
- Highness dances the waltz (1935), directed by Max Neufeld
Honors
- 1955: Aschergasse in Vienna- Hietzing (13th district)
literature
- Sabine Vernik-Eibl : "The life and work of the composers Georg Jarno and Leo Ascher. Their significance for the Viennese operetta in the first two decades of the 20th century with an analysis by DIE FÖRSTER-CHRISTL and HOHEIT TANZT WALZER." Dissertation University of Vienna, 2011. Full text online (PDF; 2.4 MB) accessed on November 1, 2012.
- Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 36f.
- Leo Ascher Papers
- "Say goodbye ..." Viennese audience favorites in images and sound by Robert Dachs , exhibition in the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna 1992. Leo Ascher was dedicated to a separate section.
- Michael Buhrs, Barbara Lesák, Thomas Trabitsch (eds.): Fledermaus-Cabaret: 1907 to 1913; a total work of art by the Wiener Werkstätte; Literature, music, dance (on the occasion of the exhibition Cabaret Fledermaus 1907–1913; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, October 18, 2007 - January 27, 2008, Austrian Theater Museum, Vienna, February 28 - June 8, 2008); With contributions from Andrea Amort , Claudia Feigl, Peter Jelavich, Barbara Lesák, Heinz Lunzer and Victoria Lunzer-Talos, Herta Neiß, Gerd Pichler, Georg Wacks - Vienna: Brandstätter, 2007; ISBN 978-3-85033-082-4
Web links
- Works by and about Leo Ascher in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Leo Ascher in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Leo Ascher in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Armin Berg Gesellschaft ( Memento from February 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In blue moonlight - A foray through the program of the cabaret Die Fledermaus , PDF 1.12MB.
- ^ R. Wiesinger: Ascher, Leo . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).
- ↑ Helen A. Ganser Library, Millersville University, Leo Ascher Papers, 1893–1980 ( Memento of October 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ascher, Leo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian composer and lawyer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1880 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1942 |
Place of death | New York City |